Mengdan Tao

787 total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 556 citations indexed

About

Mengdan Tao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mengdan Tao has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 556 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 4 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Mengdan Tao's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (8 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (5 papers) and Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (2 papers). Mengdan Tao is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (8 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (5 papers) and Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (2 papers). Mengdan Tao collaborates with scholars based in China, Sweden and India. Mengdan Tao's co-authors include Min Xu, Xiaoyan Tang, Xing Guo, Yuan Hong, Shanshan Wu, Hao Hu, Chu Chu, Da Wang, Yan Liu and Yan Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ACS Nano and Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.

In The Last Decade

Mengdan Tao

13 papers receiving 547 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Human organoids in basic research and clinical applications

2022 278 citations Xiaoyan Tang, Shanshan Wu et al. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy profile →

Peers

Mengdan Tao

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Zhaohuan Zhang China

Sofia Duque Santos Portugal

Miriam Huerta Mexico

Barry J. Liang United States

Ji Yeon Kim South Korea

Song Ih Ahn South Korea

Mingtao Zhao United States

Ching-Wen Huang Taiwan

Hsin-I Lin Taiwan

Fangchao Yin China

Zhaohuan Zhang China

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Citations per year, relative to Mengdan Tao Mengdan Tao (= 1×) peers Zhaohuan Zhang

Countries citing papers authored by Mengdan Tao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mengdan Tao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mengdan Tao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mengdan Tao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mengdan Tao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Mengdan Tao. Mengdan Tao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

Chen, Qi, Wanli Wu, Z. Ma, et al.. (2025). R406 and its structural analogs reduce SNCA/α-synuclein levels via autophagic degradation. Autophagy. 21(9). 1945–1961.

Wang, Da, Xinyue Zhang, Xiaoyan Tang, et al.. (2025). Generation of human nucleus basalis organoids with functional nbM-cortical cholinergic projections in transplanted assembloids. Cell stem cell. 32(12). 1833–1848.e7.

Zhang, Zhixiong, Rui Wang, Dan Wu, et al.. (2024). Inhibition of EHMT1/2 rescues synaptic damage and motor impairment in a PD mouse model. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 81(1). 128–128. 4 indexed citations

Tao, Mengdan, Qi Chen, Min Xu, et al.. (2024). Nanoplastics exposure-induced mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to disrupted stem cell differentiation in human cerebral organoids. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 285. 117063–117063. 15 indexed citations

Wu, Shanshan, Yuan Hong, Xinrui Li, et al.. (2024). Construction of human 3D striato-nigral assembloids to recapitulate medium spiny neuronal projection defects in Huntington’s disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(22). e2316176121–e2316176121. 17 indexed citations

Ding, Haibo, Shanshan Wu, Yuan Hong, et al.. (2024). Artificial Meshed Vessel-Induced Dimensional Breaking Growth of Human Brain Organoids and Multiregional Assembloids. ACS Nano. 7 indexed citations

Han, Lu, Yuanbo Li, Zhen Chen, et al.. (2023). Phospholipase A2-activating protein induces mitophagy through anti-apoptotic MCL1-mediated NLRX1 oligomerization. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 1870(6). 119487–119487. 5 indexed citations

Tao, Mengdan, Di Yang, Yu‐Hui Lin, et al.. (2023). Functional reconstruction of the impaired cortex and motor function by hMGEOs transplantation in stroke. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 671. 87–95. 8 indexed citations

Zhang, Yufan, Min Xu, Xinrui Li, et al.. (2023). Integration of Magnetic-Field-Directed Self-Assembly-Based Cell Culture and Biosensing Platform for Improving hPSCs-Derived Neurons and Quantitative Detection of Neurotransmitter. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(50). 58230–58240. 1 indexed citations

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Hong, Yuan, Mengdan Tao, Luping Shen, et al.. (2022). Depressive patient‐derived GABA interneurons reveal abnormal neural activity associated with HTR2C. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 15(1). e16364–e16364. 37 indexed citations

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Tang, Xiaoyan, Shanshan Wu, Da Wang, et al.. (2022). Human organoids in basic research and clinical applications. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy. 7(1). 168–168. 278 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhu, Wanying, Mengdan Tao, Yuan Hong, et al.. (2022). Dysfunction of vesicular storage in young-onset Parkinson's patient-derived dopaminergic neurons and organoids revealed by single cell electrochemical cytometry. Chemical Science. 13(21). 6217–6223. 16 indexed citations

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Dong, Xin, Xin Chen, Mengdan Tao, et al.. (2020). Human cerebral organoids establish subcortical projections in the mouse brain after transplantation. Molecular Psychiatry. 26(7). 2964–2976. 86 indexed citations

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Zhu, Wanying, Ying Zhou, Mengdan Tao, et al.. (2020). An electrochemical and fluorescence dual-signal assay based on Fe3O4@MnO2 and N-doped carbon dots for determination of hydrogen peroxide. Microchimica Acta. 187(3). 187–187. 30 indexed citations

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Tao, Mengdan, Chenxi Zhang, Yifang He, et al.. (2020). Microelectrode-Based Electrochemical Sensing Technology for in Vivo Detection of Dopamine: Recent Developments and Future Prospects. Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry. 52(3). 544–554. 52 indexed citations

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